Tomas Ledin will give a one hour concert in Skansen, Stockholm, next Juny 24th.

This concert will take place right after “Allsång på Skansen” show. Usually all the artists who participate in the “Allsång” show go on with the show for an hour. This time it will be only one artist who will entertain the audience. Tomas Ledin, who celebrates his 40 years as an artist, has participated in many Allsång in the past, this time the stage is his for one full hour.

But he won’t be alone. Tomas has invited a couple of Swedish artists to join him on stage on this special evening. And yes, Eva Dahlgren will be one of them. Eva and Tomas toured together back in 1992 with Rocktåget and they also participated in “Så mycket bättre” last year. Other artists to join Tomas on stage are E-Type and Timbuktu (who participated in the same Så mycket bättre as Eva and Tomas), Måns Zelmerlöw and Niklas Strömstedt.

As a prize Eva got money, which she is going to use to buy a video camera which will be intensively used during her tour in autumn, and an art piece of glas in for of a speech bubble done by Helen Gibson.

Eva explained how Evert Taube’s music and text always were with her and that she is very proud and touched to have received the prize. She also explained that she had been in Orust before when she played at Ellös Folkets park.

Finally, the dates for Eva Dahlgren’s coming tour in Sweden and Norway have been announced by Blixten, Eva’s tour promoters. The tour looks like this so far together with the dates in Finland, which were announced earlier this week:

Tickets for the Swedish shows went on sale today via Ticnet.se (Malmö check here). According to Blixten, tickets for Borås and Helsingborg go on sale on Monday 7th.
No information about Norway is available yet.

For information about the Finnish shows please check the other article.

Eva Dahlgren was in the TV4 program “Samtidsterapi med Strömstedt & Berg” – which is actually a radio podcast and at the same time a TV programe on TV4 play, where Jenny Strömstedt and Carina Berg go through the latest news with a personal touch. It’s a 50 minute talk with Eva. Funny, interesting, must watch!

Eva Dahlgren visited Nyhetsmorgon (TV4) this Sunday morning. In the interview she talked about her monologue, since she starts a third mini-tour with it on Friday 23rd.
She also explained that she was in China last week with her wife and that she did some filming and revealed that she will go on tour in Autumn “and do some music again” and that she maybe tries to do something with her videos during the tour.

Eva Dahlgren is one of the 7 artists who participates in the 2nd season of Swedish TV4 Så mycket bättre. You can watch the videos of the weekly program on TV4’s website (you might need Premium access to see some of them).
In addition, the songs are also available on Spotify (Sweden only).
And last but not least, the tracks can also be purchased on iTunes. Again, Sweden only, unfortunately.
According to CDON, a CD will be released on December 12, 2011 with some of the tracks performed by the artists. So far no tracklist is available, but as far as I could see last year’s CD didn’t contain all songs but only 2-3 per artist.

Update December 11: Eva has performed these songs. The last chapter of the season will be next Saturday, where the artists will perform various duets together.

Tomas Ledin’s day: Never Again
Timbuktu’s day: Socker (Strö lite söcker på mig) – she even recorded a video for this one

Jan Gradvall interviewed Eva Dahlgren while she is in New York. Eva is currently mixing the songs for “Så mycket bättre” which will be on TV4 in Autumn and explains that afterwards she will “hopefully have a nice writing period” and talks about doing something with music again.
Eva also talks about the equipment she uses in her home studio and that she currently listens to Adele and Rihanna (!).

On the website you will now find links to Eva’s videos (to Efva Attling jewels and glasses), pictures done by Eva (many of Efva Attling) as well as discography, information about her books and tour (when there is any, that is).

And a funny side note: the covers of some of the albums used on the discography are still the ones I scanned myself many years ago and are actually scans of MY LPs/CDs 😉

Eva Dahlgren is going to appear in Niklas Strömstedt SVT show Tack för musiken this Saturday, August 27th at 20:45.
The show was recorded in Juni at Maximteater in Stockholm and each of the 6 chapters is dedicated to a different artist. The TV show had it’s premiere last week and was dedicated to Ola Salo. Other artists are Lars Winnerbäck, Annika Norlin, Orup and Pernilla Andersson.
During the show, the artist performs some of his/her hits with Niklas’ band and is interview by the host Niklas, who also invited some surprise guests who had some impact in the artist’s career or life.

Other artists are supposed to be Tomas Ledin, Timbuktu, Mikael Wiehe, Lena Philipsson and Laleh. This info hasn’t been confirmed by Eva’s management or TV4, so I take it as rumours so far.

The first season of “Så mycket bättre” run on TV4 last Autumn with stars such as Lasse Berghagen, Lill Babs or Thomas Di Leva. The 7 artists spent a week in a hotel in Sweden, each of the artists had a day dedicated to themselves where this artist had to organise activities for the other participating artists, and the other artists performed cover versions of the “artist-of-the-day” songs. The show consisted of 8 chapters which were aired between October and December 2010. Wikipedia has a full list of songs which were performed.

In addition, a compilation album including these cover songs was released after the season 1 was over.